Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-08-08


means to provide for the comfort Of your
household when you lett it, and you wick
edly neglected it, go, says some one. Il
have more faith than You; believe
when go out of this world, the
Lord will provide Tor them Go to
BlaCkwell'S Island, 90 through all the
poor houses of the country and will show
you how often Goi provides for the ne
elected children OF neglected parents.
That Is, He provides for them through pub
lie charity. As for myself, | would rather
have the Lord provide for my family in
private home, and through my own indus
try, and paiernal, aud conjugal faithful
ness. But says some men: Il mean IN the
next ten or twenty years to make great
fortune, and 10 ! shall leave my family,
when 20 out of this world very comfort
able How do you know you are going
to live ten or twenty years? II we could
look up the highway of the future, We
would see il crossed by pneumOnias, and
plruTiSics, and consumptions, and colliding
rail trains. and runaway horses. aud break
ing bridges, and funeral professions. Are
you so certain you are going to live ten or
twenty years, you C:In warrant your house
hold any comfort
AFTER YOU GO AWAY FROM THEM?
Resides that, the vast majority Of men die
poor Two only out of hundred sue
cetd in business Are yOu very certain
you are going Ia be one OF the two? Rich
one day, poor the next. A man IN New
York goi two millions Of dollars, and the
money turned his brains and he died in
the lunatic asylum. All his property was
lett with the business firm, and they
-wampcd it, and then the family 0i the
insane man were left without dollar.
In eighteen months the prosperity, the in
sdnlty, the insolvency and the complete
domestic ruin. Besides that, three are
mrn Who die solvent, who are insOlvent
before they get under the ground, or he
tore their estate is settled mp. How soon
the auctiunecrs mallrt can knock the life
out Of an estate. Amau thinks the prop
erty is worth fifteen thousand dollars;
under forced sale II brings
seven thousand dollars Thr
business man takes advantage Of the cri"iS
and he compels the widow Of his deceased
partner to sell ont to him at rulnouS
price, or lose all. The stock WAS supposed
to he very valuable, but it has bern 80
"watered' that when the executor tries to
sell il he Is laughed out Of Wall street, or
the administrator is ordered by the sur
rOgate To wind up the whole affair. The
estate was supposed at the mans death to
bc worth sixty Thousand dollars; but after
the Indebtedness had been met, and the
bills OF the doctor, and the undertaken,
and the tOmGstOne-Cutter have been paid,
there is nothing lett That means the
children are to come home from school and
20 to work. That means the complete
hardship of the wife, turned ont with
nothing but needle TO
FIGHT TIE GREAT BATTLE or THE WORLD.
Tear down the lambrequins, close the
piano, rip up the Administer, sell out the
wardrobe, and let the mother take a child
in each hand and trudge ont into the dcS-
crl of the world. lie insurance would
have hindered all that.
But says some on: 81 an 4 man ofsmaIl
means and cant afford tO pay the pre-
MUM" That is sometimes 4 genuine and
a lawful excuse. and there Is no answer 10
il. but in nine C.,SrS out ui ten when man
SAYS that he smokes up IN cigars and drinks
down in wine and cNpemdS in luXuries
enough money to have paid the premium
on life insurance policy which would
have kept his family from beggary when
he is dead. \ man ought to put himself
down on thc strictcst economy until he can
meet this Christian necessity. GOu have
Il, 81, ,t ,,,tt5l
have made such provision. admire what
Was said by Rev. Dr. Guthrie, the great
Scottish preacher \ few years before hs
death ne stood in public meeting and de
clarcd. "Whcn came to Edinburgh the
people sometimes laughed at my blue
stockings, and at my cotton umbrella, and
they said looked like common plough
man, and they derided me because ] lived
in Il house for which | paid thirty-iive
pounds rent year and oltrntimeS ! walk
ed when would have been very glad 10
hayea cab; hut, gentlemen, did all that
because wanted to pay the premium on
life Insurance that would keep my family
comfortable if should die That take
to he the right expression of an honest, III
tcIi'gcnt Christian man.
The utter Indifference of many people
on this important subject accounts for
much OF the crime and the panperlsm Of
this day. Who are these children sweep
ing the crossings with broken brOOms and
hcggng of You penny as you gobyt Who
are these lost souls gliding under the .sas-
light, in thin ~hawl-? Ar, they are the
victims of want; in many oi the c:,Ses the
forecast Of parents and grandparents might
have prohibited it, God only knows how
they struggled 10 do right. They prayed
UNTII. THE TEARS TRuLEON NTiIEIECUEEHS;
they .cwrd on the sack until the breaking
of the day: hut they COnld not get enough
money tu pay the rent; they could not get
cunpgh money to deceutly clothr them
-,.lyr. AID one day IN that wrctchCd hanc,
Tn, angel ui purity ana the angel 0i crime
,nurht .rcai fyEt between tn" empty
bread tr.,v aud the hI"ltss hearth, and tine
lhrE.viugrd angel shrirkcd: Aha, /
bn.. wen ia. day Says SON" man.
If believe wha, yuu say: it is night and
Christian. and mrln some time Ia uatl"ud
'n this natter" My friend, you are
roir, to lose the comfort at your
Nnu~FHNiO ~ tue riIlt WIZ INV
sinner loses heaven, 10y procrastlnati"p. /
-.r nll around me the destitute and /ntiaI
rg families of parents who meant ~oin"
t,v toattend to this Christian duty. Dur
my the process Of Adjournment 'h" man
g,is his feet wet, then rnu'N Il Chill and
iririum and the doiri'ul shake Of the doc
tors head. and the obscquics. II there ne
anything more pilr,hlc than a woman deli
,git,ly brought mp, and on her marriage
day nv an iuduIgrpt father given to man
,o whom she is the chief JOY and pride "i
life until the moment OF his death, Ind
then that same woman going ont with
helpless children at her back 10 struggle
,nr bread in world where brIwny muscle
and rugged soul are necessary say. 1t
there be anything more p!tiahle than that
do not know what IT is And get. there
are good women who are indifferent IN rr-
p,rd TO their husbands duty In tbs re-
-p-rt, and there are those positively
hostile. rs though life insurance subject
cd a man to some fatality. There iS IN
Bruollyn to-day very poor woman Keep
ing 4 small candy shop, who vchrmeniIy
opposed the insurance other husbands lite
and when application had been made Tor a
policy Of ten thousand dollars -hr ifh~tr"-
ted il. She would never have document
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